Teach me to Fall

Avianna Kennedy returns home broken. 

After years of making herself smaller for a man who convinced her she was too much—and somehow never enough—she's lost herself completely. She doesn't know how to trust her own instincts anymore. She doesn't know how to take up space without apologizing for it. She doesn't even know what real intimacy looks like. 

Then she runs into Callum Yates. 

Her childhood best friend has become someone she barely recognizes—grounded, intentional, impossibly calm. He sees through every wall she's built, notices every flinch, every apology, every moment she makes herself small. And when she confesses she doesn't know how to trust anyone anymore, he makes her an unexpected offer. 

Through a friend, he says. Someone experienced in teaching people how to reclaim their boundaries, their voice, their sense of safety. An unconventional arrangement built on structure, communication, and absolute consent. No expectations. No pressure. Just a chance to remember what it feels like to be seen—and to feel safe being seen. 

What Avianna doesn't know is that the careful hands guiding her back to herself belong to someone who's been waiting for her all along. Someone who's loved her longer than she knows. Someone who's willing to risk everything to help her heal—even if it means she never sees him as more than a friend. 

Can she learn to trust again? And when she does, will she recognize the man who's been holding her heart all along?